A 7dB NF 60GHz-band millimeter-wave transconductance mixer

Author

Jin, Yanyu ; Long, John R. ; Spirito, Marco

Author_Institution

ERL/DIMES, Delft Univ. of Technol., Delft, Netherlands

fYear

2011

fDate

5-7 June 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

A 60GHz-band doubly-balanced transconductance (G_m) mixer with an on-chip linear L-C combiner for RF and LO signal summation and impedance transformation is described. Class-AB biasing is employed for low quiescent DC power consumption (360μW at 1.2V). At f_LO=58GHz and P_LO=0dBm, the G_m-mixer prototype realizes 6.9dB (50Ω) NF_DSB, 6.2dB power conversion gain, -4.7dBm input-referred P_-1dB, and +4.2dBm IIP3.

Keywords

electric impedance; low-power electronics; millimetre wave mixers; power combiners; LO signal summation; RF signal summation; class-AB biasing; doubly-balanced transconductance mixer; frequency 58 GHz; frequency 60 GHz; gain 6.2 dB; impedance transformation; low quiescent DC power consumption; millimeter-wave transconductance mixer; noise figure 7 dB; on-chip linear L-C combiner; power 360 muW; voltage 1.2 V; Frequency measurement; Gain; Mixers; Noise measurement; Power conversion; Power measurement; Radio frequency; Millimeter-wave (mm-wave) mixer; linear RF combining; low-voltage mixer; transconductance mixer;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC), 2011 IEEE

Conference_Location

Baltimore, MD

ISSN

1529-2517

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8293-1

Electronic_ISBN

1529-2517

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RFIC.2011.5940650

Filename

5940650